Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headlines of a yesterday's issue of one of the outstanding newspapers in the country. The same paper, it is true, carried full accounts of the Indian riots, senatorial goings-on, and other more legitimate news. The events which by all sane standards may be said to hold any vital importance for America or the world apparently have to be spiced with innumerable inconsequential and often silly stories. A public once satisfied by "news" from Winstead, Conn., about five-legged calves, trained brook trout, talking chickens, and green horses, must now have the gossip and idiocies of a whole world...
...medicine he should have died a year ago. Between attacks he continues to paint, portraits now. Modern critics, incidentally, prefer these to his murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were often too many of them on a screen. His portraits are just as vital, just as colorful, but since he can only work for an hour and a half at a time, they have the added merit of extreme simplicity...
...London last week Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Home, onetime (1921-22) Chancellor of the Exchequer, contributed to this vital subject a parcel of impressive words...
...Soviet Russia to decree the destruction of the Kulaks, or rich peasants. This class, according to instructions, must not exceed three per cent of the entire Soviet Union or, more accurately, four million peasants. With hunger and exile awaiting those who are subject to this decree, it is a vital question to determine exactly what are the specifications for "Kulakdom" as distinguished from the "middle" peasantry...
Meanwhile steel production and freight car loadings-two vital indices of industrial activity-continued to decline. Orders from railroads, which had been keeping up steel production, were declining and the automobile business showed no sign of any throbbing life. The market closed the week in a "recession" brought about by unfavorable estimates, particularly from Western Union, of first quarter earnings...